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Deni celebrate their forest homeland in the Brazilian Amazon

Posted by paulo adario - 21 September 2011 at 5:40pm - 1 Comment
Biruvi Deni demarcating Amazon Deni lands to protect it from illegal logging wit
All rights reserved. Credit: Daniel Beltra/ Greenpeace
Biruvi Deni demarcating Amazon Deni lands to protect it from illegal logging with help from Greenpeace.

September 11, 2001 was not only a day of major tragedy in the US that changed the world we are living in, it was also a day of hope for the Deni. The Deni are an indigenous group living in semi-isolation in a very remote part of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. At that time their land was sold illegally to a logging company without their knowledge.

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Greenpeace campaigners and Deni chiefs reviewing maps for the demarcation

Author Credit:  Flavio Cannalonga/Greenpeace
Copyright:  All rights reserved
Date Taken:  2 September, 2001
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Biruvi Deni demarcating Amazon Deni lands to protect it from illegal logging with help from Greenpeace.

Biruvi Deni demarcating Amazon Deni lands to protect it from illegal logging wit
Author Credit:  Daniel Beltra/ Greenpeace
Copyright:  All rights reserved
Date Taken:  26 September, 2001
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Greenpeace in the Amazon: helping the Deni Indians to protect their land from loggers

Posted by admin - 24 January 2005 at 9:00am - 2 Comments

Deni Indians demarcarting their territory

In July 2003, a Greenpeace team helped the indigenous Deni Indian communities in the Amazon to demarcate their homeland. The land was under threat from a Malaysian logging company.

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Deni Indians celebrate the demarcation of their land

Deni Celebration of Demarcation

Deni Celebration of Demarcation

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Greenpeace calls on UK government to seize mahogany as Brazilian government bans trade

25 October, 2001

Greenpeace investigation reveals trail of illegal destruction from the Amazon Indian lands to Harrods

Greenpeace today called on the UK Government to seize imports of Brazilian mahogany coming into UK ports and for retailers, including Harrods and the John Lewis Partnership, to immediately remove mahogany products from their stores.

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Deni Indians win legal right to their Amazon land

22 October, 2001

Greenpeace commends the Deni for protecting their land from illegal logging

Manaus, Brazil, 18 October 2001: After a two year struggle supported by Greenpeace, Missionary Indigenist Council (CIMI), and Operacao Amazonia Nativa (OPAN), the Deni Indians of the Brazilian Amazon won formal recognition of their rights to their traditional land.

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UK volunteers help Amazon Indians cut boundary in forest to keep illegal loggers out of their land

11 September, 2001

Greenpeace calls for demarcation of all Indian lands in the Brazilian Amazon

The Deni Indian community with help from UK volunteers today began to physically cut a border in the Amazon rainforest to demarcate their lands in a bid to protect their traditional territory from industrial exploitation. Without this demarcation the Deni lands would be vulnerable to land grabs by logging companies after the wealth of natural resources which belong to the Deni. This is only the second time that an Indian group has, without government assistance, demarcated their lands in the Amazon.

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Expedition diary from Rebecca Lerer, Greenpeace press officer and writer

savioSolimoes River, February 12th

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Into the heart of the Amazon - The Greenpeace Deni Indian expedition February - March 2001

deni bannerGreenpeace is developing projects in close partnership with local communities and organisations by supporting the self-demarcation of the Deni indigenous peoples lands. Greenpeace is providing a step towards the protection of a remote forest area under threat from multinational logging companies.

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